Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

Inc MdNlN1lll cave III htututA9
now has railway connection.
y London cablegram chronicles the
death Of the duchess OF Norfolk.
Tie governor Of New York has
vetoed tie Crosby higl-license bill.
Spencer Smith has accepted place
OH The Iowa Railroad Commission.
The missing steamer Eagle has ar
rived at St. Johns with two thousand
seals.
The heaviest crop for many years is
predicted by leach-groWer5 III New
Jersey.
Samuel Simpson, an uncle Of Gen
eral Grant. died at Bantam, Ohio, at
the age OF 81.
An earthquake sufficiently severe to
create panic occurred on sunday at
Burlington ermont.
John Z. Raymond. the well-known
actor. died at Evansville, Ind, at
O'Clock Sunday morning.
Charles 2. Parker. who stole 81, 400
from Paymaster ID. n Bash, III Ari-
iona, has been captured.
The Chicago bail club defeated the
St. Louis Browns Tuesday by score
of Is to -, at Louisville.
Copious rains have at last fallen for
distance of three hundred miles
along the Texas and Pacific road.
y commercial club has been organ
lied by the leading business men to
boom the ancient town Of Galena.
In a bali game played Wednesday at
Cincinnati. the Chicago nine defeated
the St. Louis Browns by score of
10 g.
A fire at Custer. Michigan. de-
troyed factory which turned out 49,
coo cloties-pins daily. 1t was valued
at $4,000
The German Government, after ex-
periments 10y tho war office, paid 500,
600 for an invention for steering
balloons
The members Of Temple Israel. at
St Louis, subscribed $500 on sunday
toward monument TO Rev, Henry
Ward Beecher.
The legislature Of West Virginia, at
special session commencing next
week. viii resume hallotiug for United
States senator.
The drought jan Texas extends from
the western grazing lands across the
state eight hundred miles % tie Louis
lana pine region.
William Feds, captain e the
United States INDIAN police, was
killed near Eufauia on Sunday, by a
chief named Cunning.
DR.. Nathan NJ. Thomas. one of the
pioneers OF Michigan and famous
abolition ST. died "a SchoOlcratt, Oh
Wednesday. aged 81 years.
A fire in the laundry of Sing Sing
prison destroyed the roof and upper
ii0OT. The G0nYiCts rendered AID iii
extinguishing the flames.
The late Miss Catharine J.. Wolfe, of
! New York, bequeathed To the Metro
| politan Museum of Art her collection
of pictures and 500 IN cash.
| At Westfield Corners, Illinois. John
| Hogan was Knocked down and then
seized 10y the neck and shaken to
( death by savage stallion,
1t is reported from Fort Gibson that
| James G.. Blaine is improving, but has
/ been advised 10y his physician TO re-
main in his room for week.
Nora Brown, fat negress Of San
! Antonio, Texas, has within seven
years become white. with the eXcep-
/ ton of her neck and hnger-tips.
Eldridge d. Rand, one of the pioneer
lumber merchants OF the upper Mis-
sissippi, died at Burlington, Iowa, on
/ Sunday, leaving a large fortune.
Under a recent enactment Of the
/ Ohio legislature, husband and wife are
/ distinct individuals in their gifts 10
acquire and dispose Of property.
1t is stated by the Atlanta Coasiitlt-
! ton that President Cleveland has
promised to attend the Piedmont eX-
! position in that city next October,
\ tribunal at Odessa sentenced
! Lieutenant Goreff to eight years hard
| labor in the mines of Siberia for dis
tributing revolutionary circulars.
Kuty, a town in Austrian Galicia,
/ having a population of about 6,O0O,
! has been almost completely destroyed
by fire. About 1000 people are home
/ less.
1t is proposed TO amalgamate IN one
! gigantic organization the National
/ Federation OF Miners and the Miner 5
National Assembly OF the Knights OF
Labor.
The statement comes from st.
/ Thomas that negotiations for the
transfer of the Canada Southern road
to the Canadian Pacific are in pro-
gress.
David Z. Mitchell. "a stocb-dealer
well known in central Illinois, has fled
with 5000 or so, obtained IN the Vi
entity of Bloomington by false pre-
( lenses.
Levi Empie, a banker at Buriingame
! Kansas. who died on sunday from
] paralysis. was one of the pioneers of
that State, and q prominent ODD
I Fellow.
The Illinois Central road has purch-
ased control of the Dubuque and
Sioux City at $50 per share, and now
owns all the lines in Iowa heretofore
/ leased by il.
The legislature of Rhode Island
/ comprises SO democrats and 46 TepUb-
/ Leans, insuring the election of those
democratic state candidates who failed
at the polls.
The new Illinois railroad commits
/ sion comprises John l. RIuaker, B. I
Marsh. and Jason Rogers. The north
eru section OF the state is NOW un
. represented.
The trustees of the Illinois Soldiers
. Orphans home AT Normal have re-
moved Virginia G. OAr, maIon tgl
twenty years, and reiustatei c, L
Gall as clerk.